The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1887-11-09
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Built up Bwns and Cities. IN \
Kept American money insAmerica.
Provided abundance and cheapness.
Given us commercial Independence.
Doubled our foreign trade since
1860. 49,.
Universally expanded the useful in
dustries.
Increased manufactures five fold in
twenty years., ~
Vastly improved the condition of
farm laborers.
Conserved both individual and Ma
tional interests4
Fed and cladAmericans with Amer
lean products.
Lowered many articles below the
European prices. To- '1q7ra
Unlocked the capital awaiting profit
able investment. s,lo ,t as sgs.
Applied Our own labor to our own
natural resources.
Created diversity of employment for
skilled labor
Reduced the price on every manu-
featured article. ri
Enormously increased the general
wealth of the country.
Turned capital into ten thousand
channels Of enterprise.
Raised the average of wages to
double that paid in Europe.
Put ninety per cent. of the annual
product into the pocket of labor.
Presented labor the key to knowl-
edge and self-improvement.
Contributed to the prosperity, not of
the few, but of the many.
Enhanced the value of farming lands
by promoting manufactures.
Aided in the distribution of wealth
by encouraging competition.
Fortified artificial advantages, such
as those arising from inventions.
| Made the United States the greatest
workshop on the face of the earth.
Increased revenue and commerce in
! greater ratio than population.
Improved the quality rs well as in
creased the quantity of manufactures.
Lowered the cost of living more than
twenty-five per cent. since 1876.
Diminished profits, but at the same
time enlarged the volume of business.
Rendered possible the payment of
living wages for getting out raw MAJ
terial.
Increased the production and Won
derfully reduced the price Of steel
rails.
Established an equilibrium between
! agriculture, commerce and manufact-
ure.
Provided a market at home that
takes seven-eighths of the farmer S
products.
Armed the Government for sue
cessful war of defense against the Sc
! ceding South.
Put the vast volume of our currency
into constant and general use among
ourselves.
| Benefited the farmer by preventing
his customers from becoming his com
petitors.
| Saved 5000, 900 workers from the
| results of direct competition with cheap
foreign labor
| Caused American labor to be more
productive, per man, than that of any
other land. ...... ...f
| Made market for products at tn,
very door of the factory and the gait
of the farm.
| Steadily increased the wages o
skilled and unskilled labor in the last
ten years. i u-elF .t,
! Cheapened the cost of Transports
ton, by stimulating the Investment O
capital in railroads.
| Diverted the energies of the people
into new pursuits and opened new
avenues to employment.
I Promoted the expectation of map,.
features by cheapening them, Will
still maintaining good wages.
Provided occupation, or the means
of living, for more than 5000. 900 i'm
migrants.
Opened to the Industrious poor o
other lands the gateway to the larges
opportunities for lettering their con
dition.
i Enabled American silk manufact
cries to grow and prosper, and max
the best dress goods produced in tn
world to-day.
Brought the consumption of manu-
featured commodities up to twice u
much per capita as any other natiol
, consumes.
Il Guarded farmers from competition
with India wheat produced by laborer
at one-eighth of what is paid in tn
United States.
Il Enabled the United States to reduc
its debt $1.5OO,OOO, 900 since 1865
while all other great nations hav
: largely increased their debt.
Il Trebled the number of hands en-
, ployed in wooden industries, quintu
: pied the aggregate of wages paid, an
: quintupled the capital employed.
Opened to the industrious, enter
prising and inventive skilled workman
r possibilities that are presented to tn
: laborer in no other country.
Il Fixed the standard of comforts
among working-men. infinitely hlghe